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Monday, 11 April 2011

Little things that go wrong in CP Movies


Like many (not all) who are into the CP scene, I have a particular liking for schoolgirl themes. Okay, let’s get the usual disclaimers out of the way – I do not want to see real underage schoolgirls being given corporal punishment – I’m talking about consenting adults dressing as and role playing situations with a school based theme. In the great scheme of things that might be classed as a minority kink, but it clearly isn’t a small minority given the amount of photo and video material in the category that is out there.

There’s enough to cater for a diverse range of tastes within the genre. My own personal liking is for maximum realism – that probably does put me into a very tiny minority because, for example, if the scene is depicting a head teacher punishing a naughty girl, I’d prefer the punishment to be administered to her normally clothed. I’m happy to accept that if she’s wearing a very short skirt and has to bend over, the punishment might be on her knickers but I’d prefer her not to be made to take the knickers down at the time. There’s plenty of scope for her going off to the loos afterwards to pull them down to take a look at the damage, or getting a follow up punishment at home where it is a little more credible that she might be punished on the bare.

I accept, as I’ve already said, that puts me into a very small minority and I’m not pretending I can’t enjoy scenes where the girl gets her punishment bare bottom. There are a number of other little details that, from my perspective, reduce the authenticity of the scene. For example...

• “Schoolgirls” being punished in the headmaster’s office wearing stiletto heels – in the real world, I’ve seen some quite daring takes on school uniforms in terms of shortness of skirts, unfastened blouse buttons etc. but stilettos? Give me a break!
• “Schoolgirls” being punished in the headmaster’s office who have turned up with no shoes on at all. Okay, so if you’re going to put a girl over you knee for a spanking you don’t want a kick in the face for your troubles but at least make her remove the shoes.
• “Schoolgirls” with tattoos – I’m no fan of tattoos anyway, but if a girl has very obvious tattoos then maybe they should be in a different scenario to the schoolgirl one.
• Smoke drifting in front of the camera lens because the cameraman is smoking – it’s possibly even worse than the odd stray intervention from a microphone or a second camera.
• Spankees who bare their bottom for a punishment and it’s already showing the marks from a recent punishment although there hasn’t been one in the story. To me, that’s just lazy film making. If you want people to buy a video, pay the girl enough that she can “rest” for long enough before the day of the shoot that she’s not still bearing the marks from the last one.
• Caners who hold the cane half way along – if you want it to hurt less, use a shorter cane. It’s just poor technique.
• A similar issue when the caner delivers strokes that travel barely six inches and wouldn’t hurt a fly. That was never the idea of a head teacher or teacher giving a caning to a recalcitrant pupil.
• Caners who give the girl a warm-up spanking first, for much the same reason. In real life in schools they did not really want to be kind and make it easy. Of course, if they were going to make it more realistic by caning over underwear at least, they could give a warm-up off-camera and we’d be none the wiser
• Teachers, and most especially head teachers, who are in casual dress. Of course some teachers do go to work dressed more casually – the trouble is that they’re likely to be the more progressive ones who don’t believe in corporal punishment in the first place.

There are ways around many of these by including an explanation in the plot – for example of why the figure of authority happens to not be formally dressed on this occasion, or how the girl’s bottom is marked because her father thrashed her last night. But just ignoring the issues lessens the credibility.

5 comments:

Old Tom said...

I fully agree with every single one of your comments

sixofthebest said...

I personally like a naughty woman's knicker's to be taken down.Then see her caned on her bare bottom. A turn on for me is if her bare bottom is encased in suspender-belt and stockings. They make the naughty lady, look more sexually erotic.

Targetarear said...

I quite agree with your comments.

But first of all I should say that although when I attended secondary school in the 1960s corporal punishment was commonplace, I cannot remember female pupils being caned on their hands, let alone on their bottoms. But that does not mean it didn't happen in other schools.

But even if girls were caned on the bottom in other schools, I feel sure, first of all a female member of staff would have witnessed the punishment, to ensure propriety. (Teachers were very staitlaced in those days).

Secondly I reckon the girls would have been caned over their school uniform skirts or whatever outer clothers they were wearing, because caning over underwear would have been considered totally unacceptable in those days.

Lastly, caning on the bare bottom would have been looked upon as indecent assault. I remember reading a report in the News of the World about a headmaster who was dismissed and imprisoned after spanking two girl pupils on their bare bottoms with a hairbrush. (The story was reprinted in an issue of Kane Magazine). In that case the girls were not made to remove their knickers, just to pull them up into a 'wedgie' to expose their cheeks.

So I agree we need realism in schoolgitl caning videos.

Yes, the girls in these films should be warmed up off screen before being caned. Yes, they should be caned over their outer clothes. (A tightish pale fgrey skirt would be ideal for showing the outline of the girls' bottoms).

And yes, the removal of knickers, and the inspection (in close up) of bare cane-marked bottoms should happen after the punishment in a washroom or changing room, or, if the school is a boarder, in the dormitory.

James Stephenson said...

David - thank you for those thoughtful comments. I'm certainly not saying that I don't enjoy the "mainstream" CP material on the web but on the odd occasion something is there that is a little more "like it might have been" then I like it even better. I was hopeful at one time that the Spanking Over Skirts website might offer something but it rather lost it's way. Some of of the videos produced by Spanking Facts and Research were also good but it would be good to see a producer concentrating purely on the authentic product.

Anonymous said...

I agree about realism where I went to school girls were only ever caned on the hand. The incidence of bottom caning was very rare indeed and Ive only come across one lady who was caned on the backside. girl were not caned often but every girl in my class got it at some stage and male teachers did not have a female teacher witness.